The Kremlin and the Russian public are locked in a cat‑and‑mouse game over the government’s attempts to control the global web. Children and older adults alike now know how to use the tools needed to get around the censorship
Celebrities with millions of followers criticize the authorities for not informing the president about the country’s problems, although they avoid attacking him directly
The Roscosmos agency is delaying its attempt to explore the lunar surface with robots for another year, after its failure in 2023. The initiative seeks to establish ‘sovereign Russian territories on its surface’
Andrei Soldatov and his colleague Irina Borogan say that the Kremlin’s intelligence services believe they are in an eternal war against the West
Residents in the city are turning to pagers and printed maps due to the outages in the Russian capital
The Kremlin is offloading its offshore oil reserves due to the Middle East crisis, but a sustained global recession would hit its economy hard
‘Life is divided into a before and an after,’ says one of the thousands of soldiers who return without legs or arms and who has founded a rehabilitation center
Sales of drugs to treat anxiety and other mental health issues have tripled since the pandemic, and grow every year
The veteran politician, who is preparing his bid for the State Duma after being barred from the 2024 presidential elections, seeks to ‘overcome the post-imperial syndrome and bring Russia back into Europe’
The US president says the Russian leader has promised to stop bombing as freezing cold temperatures grip the country
Vladimir Putin’s ‘special military operation’ marks 1,418 days on January 12
Country’s leading political prisoner defense group warns of its critical situation due to lack of funds
Volodymyr Zelenskiy is hoping the US president will run out of patience with Vladimir Putin as his military prepares for a prolonged war
Sergey Lavrov claims Moscow has identified the targets it will bomb following an alleged strike on a presidential residence in Novgorod
With Trump stepping back, NATO faces the challenge of responding to the Russian threat while seeking lessons from almost four years of the war in Ukraine
Stanislav Orlov, who united diehard soccer fans under a volunteer brigade fighting on Russia’s side, was shot dead by his own country’s security forces in Crimea
Vladimir Putin says the White House’s original proposal ‘can be used as the basis for a final peaceful settlement’ in Ukraine
Russia is offering discounts of up to $23 per barrel before the US president’s measures on its two major oil companies take effect
A photograph of a soldier with three dead bodies has sparked a bloody challenge between combatants on both sides
Russian president warns of costly repercussions after China also stops buying his country’s crude — and India may be next
Russia tells US and EU leaders that it is not interested in a ceasefire in Ukraine
Kim Jong-Un’s regime reaffirms its alliance with Russia through a major exhibition that portrays an idyllic image of the country and its involvement in the Ukrainian war
The Kremlin awards medals, positions, public appearances, and biopics to agents of its ‘illegal intelligence’ services that sow chaos in the West
Moscow is cracking down on complaints calling for the return of troops three years after the draft that shocked Russia
The military exercises being staged in Belarus, a repeat of those in 2021 that preceded the invasion of Ukraine, are taking place just two days after the Russian drone incursion into Poland
Complete control of the depressed industrial belt of eastern Ukraine, from which millions of Ukrainians have fled in the last decade, would offer a major victory to Putin and put Kyiv at risk of a new invasion
The Russian economic engine is showing clear signs of exhaustion — a reality the Kremlin is beginning to acknowledge. The military-driven boom of 2023 and 2024 is now in the past